‘The Marvels’ is probably headed for one of the worst MCU box-office openings ever

by Ripclawe

29 comments
  1. You need to have watched 2 Disney+ shows to even know who two of the “Marvels” are.

    Also, I fell asleep during the first Captain Marvel movie and that was back when Marvel hype was super high.

  2. I think people are just over it. Too much of something will do that.

  3. Seeing this on CNBC is for stock holders and institutional companies. Some moves have to be made before year’s end.

  4. The MCU is entirely responsible for this disaster. They chose to abandon their fans.

  5. It sucks for Iman Vellani because she’s actually good as Kamala but this puts an end to a Season 2 for Ms. Marvel.

    Brie Larson has pretty much made it clear she won’t return to the MCU and I can’t blame her for it. The hate she has received since 2019 has been too much.

    I think Vellani and Parris will stay on as supporting characters in the Universe but this is the end for Carol Danvers.

  6. Marvel being Marvel. It’s the main reason I kind of stuck to DC buying comics, which also waned after 52 Weeks and Countdown. This is my opinion and it’ll get trashed, but Marvel makes 6 titles for one character and expects you to buy every issue to know what’s going on across all the titles. Now they need you to watch a show on Disney Plus to understand a movie on top of everything. It’s a bit much to expect a casual viewer to keep up with all these peripheral and then tertiary storylines in comics and movies.

  7. Not surprising when;

    – The studio didn’t know what to do with the main character, pretty much wrote her out of Endgame and didn’t give her a stand-alone sequel. She’s overpowered and has little personality.

    – They put her with two characters, both from tv shows, which a big chunk of the target audience don’t bother with.

    – It’s a follow-up to a movie that did well financially, but didn’t go down well with fans.

    – The film had 4 weeks of reshoots and the premiere date pushed back multiple times.

    – Director Nia DaCosta said the current state of the MCU confused her, and now seems to want to distance herself from the film, saying “It is a Kevin Feige production, it’s his movie” That doesn’t sound like someone who is proud of the end product.

    – Marvel has had a terrible track record recently, with the only real exception being GOTG 3, and it sounds like that only worked because James Gunn was allowed to call the shots.

    – The promotional campaign was terrible. The first few trailers were goofy, giving Thor: Love and Thunder flashbacks, then suddenly we get a ‘serious’ trailer, including Tony Stark and Captain America, which reeked of desperation.

    – Let’s be honest – A large chunk of the male audience won’t be interested in this.

    – Like it or not, superhero fatigue is real. Marvel have been going for 15 years and revolutionised the Blockbuster scene. But after Endgame, things have felt disjointed, directionless and of low quality.

  8. Good! Disney’s woke agenda, woke actresses, and woke movies is why they’re failing and losing their base. Hope they make more stupid decisions and lose more money.

  9. The marketing seemed to go hard into this being a superhero chick flic and it looks like that has about the same draw as WNBA games?

  10. Marvel fatigue is definitely setting in hard. Not to mention, the trailers for this movie pretty much turned me off immediately. Felt like it was going to be a gimmicky and confusing plot.

    These films should have died with Stark.

  11. Marvel needs to do more to make us think their movies are events again. And not just something we can wait 3 months and watch on Disney+

  12. Wait the Marvels is a movie? I thought it was a show. That makes me want to watch it even less.

  13. The D+ & movie integration is not working on the Marvel side. They spend too much making mostly mediocre TV shows that de-value the content in the movie.

    Also…if I wait 90 days I can watch it at home instead of paying $100+ to watch it in a theater with my family.

    Unfortunately I think this will be the beginning of the end of superhero bubble on Marvel side. Flash was the movie that did the same for DC.

  14. Are people just ignoring the who no-actors-promo because of the strike factor?

  15. I just can’t see her as anything other than the au pair asking for a golden gate with Rafi.

  16. Tbh a YouTuber did a vid after watching and I think his criticism of the movie is much more on point than cnbc’s

  17. Yeah yeah every Marvel movie is headed towards the worst blah blah blah.

    It’s always doom and gloom I swear.

  18. And apparently this film is quite enjoyable.

    Just goes to show people want the film to flop so they can continue to post their “Marvel is woke!” videos on YouTube.

  19. how long before they blame it on all sexists movie goers

  20. Maybe, just maybe, Marcel should chill out for a couple of years. Make us miss them.

  21. I know there are going to blame it on Disney/Marvel being woke or whatever

    But I think we all know the reality: MCU BURNOUT!!! People are just exhausted, there is too much content to keep up with and becoming very formulaic.

  22. It’s a bit of a stretch to consider Edward Norton’s “The Incredible Hulk” as part of the MCU and even more so when comparing box office numbers.

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